AUTHOR=Geppert Tim , Deml Stefan , Sturzenegger David , Ebert Nico 

TITLE=Trusted Execution Environments: Applications and Organizational Challenges

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Computer Science

VOLUME=4

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/computer-science/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2022.930741

DOI=10.3389/fcomp.2022.930741

ISSN=2624-9898

ABSTRACT=<p>A lack of trust in the providers is still a major barrier to cloud computing adoption – especially when sensitive data is involved. While current privacy-enhancing technologies, such as homomorphic encryption, can increase security, they come with a considerable performance overhead. As an alternative Trusted Executing Environment (TEE) provides trust guarantees for code execution in the cloud similar to transport layer security for data transport or advanced encryption standard algorithms for data storage. Cloud infrastructure providers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft introduced TEEs as part of their infrastructure offerings. This review will shed light on the different technological options of TEEs, as well as give insight into organizational issues regarding their usage.</p>